Improvement in medical compounds for cure of scrofula, liver complaint



sited tetra Letters Patent No. 113,151, dated March 28, 1871.

IMPROVE MENTI N MEDICAL COMPOUNDS FOR CURE CFSCROFULA, LIVERCOMPLAINT,&c.-

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of thesame.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, PmLr'P FAY, Sr., ofLacon, in the county of Marshall and in the State of Illinois, haveinvented a Medical Compound for the Cure of Scrofula, Cancer, LiverComplaint, and cognate discases; and do hereb declare that the followingisa full, clear, and exac description of the ingredients formingthiscompound, the quantities of each, and manner of compounding, making, andusing the same.

The ingredients and their respective quantities are as follows:

Sixounces of sarsaparilla root; six ounces of sassasfras bark; sixounces of guaiacum; six ounces of gantimony, (in powder;) six drams ofspirits of miter; six ounces of scurvy-grass; six ounces of water-dock,leaves or roots, or both; six ounces of sheep-sorrel, roots or leaves,or both.

"Throw the above, excepting the antimony, into a pot containing tenquarts of water. After boiling the above some time suspend the antimony,inclosed first in a cloth bag, in the Water, having previously added tothe-above five quarts of water in addition, being careful to keep thecontaining the antimony from contact with the sides of the pot, it aniron one, or of other metal. Now boil the whole down to ten quarts, and,when cool, bottle for use.

The dose is one wineglassful, three times a day,

of February, 1871.

PHILIP FAY, SENR.

Witnesses:

HENRY W. WELLS, A. A. HOWARD.

